OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

7 x 16.3 cm.

Lines:

11

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Light brown papyrus, badly damaged. The ends of the first six lines are missing, otherwise regularly cut at right side. What is left of top margin measures 1.5 cm, the left 1/2 cm and the bottom one 5.6 cm. at its widest.

Content

Date:

August 22, 167 A.D.

Origin:

Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Memnon (?)

Title / Type of text:

Beer-tax

Content:

Revenue account for two brewers.

Subjects:

Revenue Taxation Beer Account Brewers

Named people:

Memnon (?) Maitoytes (?) Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Maximus, emperor Verus Augustus Armeniacus Medicus Parthicus Maximus, emperor

Named places:

–

English translation:

...on son of Didymos ....... tax collector of the village Theadelphia, to ...os and Maitoytes. They have got from you on account of beer tax the amount of 44 drachmae and 27 ?. In the 7th year of the Lords Antoninus and Verus, Augusti, Armeniaci, Medici, Parthici, Maximi. Mesore 29.

Provenance:

Probably Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 29
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Schmidt K, Gött.Gel.Anz. 194 (1932) 281 (l.4)
  • P.Oslo II (1931) 153

Further Literature

Reiter F, Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites. 2004, 153, n.48.